tortious

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to the nature of a tort

   “tortious acts”

Questions about tortious

What does tortious mean?

tortious means "of or pertaining to the nature of a tort".

How many syllables are in tortious?

tortious has 3 syllables: tor-ti-ous. The stress falls on "ti".

Is tortious a common word?

tortious is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.